Wikipedia Cheat Sheet

Mediawiki Cheat Sheet
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For a page on how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels, see Wikipedia:Tips; For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead.

You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two pairs of apostrophes like 'this'.

Text formatting markup

Description	You type	You get
Character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere
Italic text	italic
Bold text	bold
Bold and italic	bold & italic
Escape wiki markup	no [[wiki]] 'markup'
Section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
Section Headings of different levels	Skip Level 1, it is page name level. Do not put any text on the same line after the ending equal signs. An article with 4 or more headings automatically creates a table of contents (unless setting the magic word `__NOTOC__`).	Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
Horizontal rule	Text before Text after
Bullet list	Start each line with an asterisk (*). More asterisks give deeper and deeper levels. Line breaks don't break levels. But jumping levels creates empty space. Any other start ends the list. combine bullet list with definition - definition creates empty space combine bullet list with definition - definition without empty spaces bullet list - definition sublist that doesn't create empty spaces after definition
Numbered list	Start each line with a number sign (#). More number signs give deeper and deeper levels. Line breaks don't break levels. But jumping levels creates empty space. Blank lines end the list and start another. Any other start alsoends the list. # use 'nowiki' tags to display a literal (#) at the beginning of a line without interpreting it as a numbered list.
Definition list	At the end of the line, if the line begins with a semicolon (;), any inserted colon (:) will not be displayed. If you want for the colon to be displayed, escape it by writing `:`.	item 1 definition 1 item 2 definition 2-1 definition 2-2
Indent text	Single indent Double indent Multiple indent
Mixture of different types of list	The usage of `#:` and `*:` for breaking a line within an item may also harm accessibility.	one two two point one two point two three three item one three def one four four def one this looks like a continuation and is often used instead of <br /> five five sub 1 five sub 1 sub 1 five sub 2
Preformatted text	This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting. Character formatting markups are still effective.
Preformatted text blocks

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Paragraphs

MediaWiki ignores single line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tag  .

HTML tags

Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, and . These apply anywhere you insert them.

Description	You type	You get
Inserted (Displays as underline in most browsers)	or Underline
Deleted (Displays as strike-through in most browsers)	~~Strike-through~~ or ~~Deleted~~
Fixed width text	`Source code`
Blockquotes	Text before Blockquote Text after
Quotes	The q element must not be used in place of quotation marks that do not represent quotes; for example, it is inappropriate to use the q element for marking up sarcastic statements.^[1]	This is a quotation
Comment	Comments are visible only in the edit zone.
Completely preformatted text	For marking up of preformatted text, check the 'Preformatted text' entry at the end of the previous table.
Customized preformatted text	A CSS style can be named within the `style` attribute.

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Description	You type	You get
Default preformatted text has a CSS attribute (`white-space: pre-wrap;`) to wrap the text according to available width
Customized preformatted text with disabled text wrapping

Inserting symbols

Symbols and other special characters not available on your keyboard can be inserted in a multitude of ways. Many Operating Systems and browsers allow you to insert special characters through a menu option or Operating System panel. Additionally, you can use the WikiEditor or VisualEditor to insert them into the edit screen.

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As a last resort, you can use a special sequence of characters. Those sequences are called HTML entities. For example, the following sequence (entity) → when inserted will be shown as HTML symbol → and — when inserted will be shown as an HTML symbol —.

Hover over any character to find out the symbol that it produces. Some symbols not available in the current font will appear as empty squares.

HTML symbol entities
Á	á	Â	â	´	Æ	æ	À	à	ℵ	Α	α	&	∧	∠	Å	å	≈	Ã	ã	Ä	ä	„	Β	β	¦	•	∩	Ç	ç	¸	¢
Χ	χ	ˆ	♣	≅	©	↵	∪	¤	†	‡	↓	⇓	°	Δ	δ	♦	÷	É	é	Ê	ê	È	è	∅	Ε	ε	≡	Η	η
Ð	ð	Ë	ë	€	∃	ƒ	∀	½	¼	¾	⁄	Γ	γ	≥	>	↔	⇔	♥	…	Í	í	Î	î	¡	Ì	ì	ℑ	∞	∫	Ι	ι
¿	∈	Ï	ï	Κ	κ	Λ	λ	⟨	«	←	⇐	⌈	“	≤	⌊	∗	◊	‎	‹	‘	<	¯	—	µ	·	−	Μ	μ	∇	–
≠	∋	¬	∉	⊄	Ñ	ñ	Ν	ν	Ó	ó	Ô	ô	Œ	œ	Ò	ò	‾	Ω	ω	Ο	ο	⊕	∨	ª	º	Ø	ø	Õ	õ	⊗	Ö
ö	¶	∂	‰	⊥	Φ	φ	Π	π	ϖ	±	£	′	″	∏	∝	Ψ	ψ	'	√	⟩	»	→	⇒	⌉	”	ℜ	®	⌋	Ρ	ρ	‏
›	’	‚	Š	š	⋅	§		Σ	σ	ς	∼	♠	⊂	⊆	∑	⊃	¹	²	³	⊇	ß	Τ	τ	∴	Θ	θ	ϑ	Þ	þ	˜
×	™	Ú	ú	↑	⇑	Û	û	Ù	ù	¨	ϒ	Υ	υ	Ü	ü	℘	Ξ	ξ	Ý	ý	¥	ÿ	Ÿ	Ζ	ζ	‍	‌

Description	You type	You get
Copyright symbol	©	©
Greek delta letter symbol	δ	δ
Euro currency symbol	€	€

See the list of all HTML entities on the Wikipedia article List of HTML entities. Additionally, MediaWiki supports two non-standard entity reference sequences: &רלמ; and &رلم; which are both considered equivalent to &rlm; which is a right-to-left mark. (Used when combining right to left languages with left to right languages in the same page.)

HTML tags and symbol entities displayed themselves (with and without interpreting them)

&euro; → €

Typo to be corrected → Typo to be corrected

Typo to be corrected → Typo to be corrected

Nowiki for HTML

<nowiki /> can prohibit (HTML) tags:

<<nowiki />pre> → <pre>

But not & symbol escapes:

&<nowiki />amp; → &